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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455260803321

Autore

Huntington Julie Anne

Titolo

Sounding off : rhythm, music, and identity in West African and Caribbean francophone novels / / Julie Huntington

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-282-43731-3

9786612437311

1-4399-0033-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

African Soundscapes

Disciplina

840.9/35780966

Soggetti

African fiction (French) - History and criticism

Caribbean fiction (French) - History and criticism

Sound in literature

Rhythm in literature

Music in literature

Group identity in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-233) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Rhythm and Transcultural Poetics; Rhythm and Transculture; Method; 2. Rhythm and Reappropriation in God's Bits of Wood and The Suns of Independence; Language and the Language of Music; Rhythm and Reappropriation in the Novel; Instrumentaliture at Work; Rhythm and Transformation; Ordinary and Extraordinary Rhythms; 3. Rhythm, Music, and Identity in L'appel des arènes and Ti Jean L'horizon; Rhythm, Music, Subjectivity, and the Novel; Rhythm and Identity in L'appel des arènes; Rhythm and Identity in Ti Jean L'horizon; Rethinking Rootedness

4. Music and Mourning in Crossing the Mangrove and Solibo MagnificentMemory, Mourning, and Mosaic Identities; Rhythm, Music, and Identity as Process; The Sounds of Death and Mourning; Configuring Rhythmic and Musically Mediated Identities; Concluding Remarks; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Intrigued by ""texted"" sonorities-the rhythms, musics, ordinary noises, and sounds of language in narratives-Julie Huntington examines the



soundscapes in contemporary Francophone novels such as Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood (Senegal), and Patrick Chamoiseau's Solibo Magnificent (Martinique). Through an ethnomusicological perspective, Huntington argues in Sounding Off that the range of sounds -footsteps, heartbeats, drumbeats-represented in West African and Caribbean works provides a rhythmic polyphony that creates spaces for configuring social and cultural identities.Hunti